Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Known throughout his five congressional terms chiefly for his bombast, Democrat Gus Savage of Chicago is in a peck of trouble. He has been accused by a woman Peace Corps volunteer of engaging in sexual misconduct...
...remember the first time I bought tickets to his show. Some trans-sexual, born-again Christian who burns American flags was the guest. Mort just ripped him up like he was a can of Play-Doh. God, it was so [naughty, naughty] beautiful...
...under debt and futility? How will he manage his passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
...each of his films, Lee stirs the social pot. His first success, She's Gotta Have It, in 1986, explored sexual stereotypes with the tale of a liberated young black woman who refuses to give up her three lovers. School Daze, Lee's 1988 musical, examines the tensions between light- and darker- skinned blacks on an all-black college campus; it evoked the ire of some blacks, who charged him with airing the race's dirty laundry in public. With Do the Right Thing, Lee has produced his most provocative film...
...surface of a script rich in unexplored depths. If A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most perfectly plotted comedy in the English language, Twelfth Night may be the most profound: its main subjects are death, madness, the delights of cruelty, the self-deluding and dreamlike quality of sexual attraction, the randomness of justice. Guskin's troupe makes the play merely sprightly, an ingratiating but seemingly minor work...